Consequential Strangers

I remember the morning in 1999, shortly after moving to NYC, when the coffee cart guy had my coffee and bagel ready by the time I arrived at the cart. He saw me coming. He made me feel home in a city where I didn’t know anyone. Definitely a consequential stranger.

Leave Everything Better Than You Found it

How to Find Hope in Hopeless Times

(via The Curious Brain)

Take Me To Church

Lenny Kravitz: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative

Not new. But always worth another listen. Thank you Ethan Hawke.

Continuum by Krista Kim

Times Square is not a place I ever want to visit. Until now: I would love to experience Continuum by Krista Kim where synchronized across 90 electronic billboards, a slowly shifting gradient of color washes over Times Square, creating a moment of calm amidst one of the most visually kinetic places in the world.

This Scene

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

Chicken People

I am a Chicken People at heart. I love all things chicken.

Treeline

Patagonia Films presents: Treeline. Follow a group of skiers, snowboarders, scientists and healers to the birch forests of Japan, the red cedars of British Columbia and the bristlecones of Nevada, as they explore an ancient story written in rings.

The Bialetti Moka Express

Thank you Open Culture for this deep dive post into The Bialetti Moka Express. (Click through for more info on this ingenious invention)

On Making Friends

Nathaniel Drew explores the challenge of making friends as adults.

(via)

The Power of Letting Go

Letting go as a concept simplified by Nietzsche.

(via)

How Big Is Our Universe?

An updated version of Powers of Ten, based on current science. Fascinating.

Why We Resist Change

Tank And The Bangas: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

I love you Tiny Desk.

(Thank you Casey)

Sardoodledom

This made my day.

Don’t Be Afraid

This is lovely. Thank you for your gift, Gasta.

Experience Institute

I had the great pleasure to meet Victor Saad, founder of the wonderfully inspiring Exeperience Institute yesterday. I am so lucky that my work (CreativeMornings) consistently reminds me of the many wonderful humans out there, who are heart-forward, generous, and believe in an optimistic, creative, community driven future. Just like Victor. You can hear more of his story, and especially the Leap Year Project, here.

How To Use A Comma

I needed this humorous and visual comma rules refresher.

Meyer Lemon Tart


 

My friend Barbara made this Lemon Tart by Claire Saffitz yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it. It was the most delicious desert I have ever had. 

The Art of Disappearing

Really enjoying it starting 1:19.

The Wine Not the Label

I keep cracking up about this. One of my favorite Schitt’s Creek scenes.

How to Do Nothing

I enjoyed this talk. In her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, multi-disciplinary artist and writer Jenny Odell argues that taking control of our attention from the capitalist forces determined to monetize it and reconnecting with the world around us is a critical form of resistance.